RABAT: Sahrawi activists blasted Morocco yesterday for failing to probe the disappearance of relatives in Western Sahara, after Spanish experts reported finding the graves of eight civilians executed decades ago.
The team of researchers from Spain’s University of the Basque Country exhumed the remains of eight Sahrawis, including two children, conducted forensic tests, and interviewed relatives and witnesses, according to the report published this week. The eight Sahrawis, who were individually identified by name, were arrested in February 1976 by a Moroccan military patrol and executed on the spot before being buried in shallow graves, the report concluded.
The researchers carried out their work after a shepherd discovered human remains last April in the Fadret Leguiaa area of the disputed territory controlled by the pro-independence Polisario Front.
AFP
